@article{c091b691f2074db2a430088306e197a6,
title = "Fine granularity scalable video: Implications for streaming and a trace-based evaluation methodology",
abstract = "Fine granularity scalability (FGS) is a new development in the area of video coding, which is designed to facilitate video streaming over communication networks. With FGS coding, the video stream can be flexibly truncated at very fine granularity to adapt to the available network resources. In this article we introduce the communications generalist to the basic properties of FGS video coding to provide background for the design of video streaming mechanisms for FGS video. We then outline a methodology for evaluating streaming mechanisms for FGS encoded video. The methodology relies on traces of the rate-distortion characteristics of FGS encoded video and enables networking researchers and practitioners without access to video codecs and video sequences to develop and evaluate rate-distortion optimized streaming mechanisms for FGS encoded video.",
author = "Patrick Seeling and {de Cuetos}, Philippe and Martin Reisslein",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Osama Lotfallah and Sethu-raman Panchanathan of Arizona State University for explaining the intricacies of the MPEG-4 FGS reference software to us, and to Frank Fitzek of Acticom GmbH, Berlin, Germany, and Aalborg University, Denmark, who helped in setting up the trace library Web site. We are grateful to Keith W. Ross of Polytechnic University for support of this work. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and detailed comments which helped to greatly improve the quality of this article. Funding Information: This work has been sup ported in part by the National Science Founda tion under Grant no. Career ANI-0 133252 and Grant no. ANI-0136774 as well as the state of Ari zona through the 1T 301 initiative, and two match ing grants from Sun Microsystems.",
year = "2005",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1109/MCOM.2005.1421917",
language = "English",
volume = "43",
pages = "138--142",
journal = "IEEE Communications Magazine",
issn = "0163-6804",
publisher = "IEEE Communications Magazine",
number = "4",
}